21.09.2008

32 Santal Parganas People carved wooden panels of the wedding (litters) Palkee, and a stilistic comparation with some Tharu panels .Santal Tribe. Indian Tribal Art. Indian carved panels. ETHNOFLORENCE COLLECTION.

"... WHEN A SANTAL CRAFSMAN BEGINS HIS WORK ON THE LITTER, A PAIR OF PIGEONS IS SACRIFICED .....WHEN THE LITTER     IS COMPLETED     AND ITS      OWENER     TAKEN  POSSESSION   TWO MORE PIGEONS ARE PART OF ANOTHER SACRIFICE ... THE ACTIVITY OF CARVING IS PART OF THE MARRIAGE    RITE,  AS    IS THE PROCESSION     OF      THE MARRIAGE LITTER..." (Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Stella Kramrisch, Philadelphia 1968)

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 Low relief narrative carvings, in an extremely frontal profile style, using the words of Ms Stella Kramrisch "...somehow paralleling Egyptian reliefs...".

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The plastic solidity of this low relief carving raider remember me a poetry that the Italian sculpture Marino Marini wrote for his raiders: " I cavalieri portano dentro di sé la pazienza stoica dell'uomo antico che vede sprofondare il suo mondo e tuttavia non si arrende".(Marino Marini 1944)
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Marriage procession.
About the exhibition :" Palkee: Wedding Conveyances of North India" at the Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento  ( 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA 95814  USA )  more information on http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/exhibitions/exhib_pages/P... .
About the Santal panels see also the new and interesting feature on http://sanza.skynetblogs.be/post/6221941/panneaux-de-pala... , by Arts Premiers - Primitive Art Primitif - of Bruxelles (Courtesy).

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 N1 Detail.

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" I cavalieri rovesciati sono i Miracoli. L'idea è che essi si distruggono, diventano elemento bruciato ... Il cavaliere non sta più bene sulla terra, vuol bucare la crosta terrestre, sforare nel cosmo. Non gli è consentito stare tra gli uomini che tranquilli non sono più. Il cavallo cede e il cavaliere si perde" (Marino Marini)

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Detail.

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Another part of the procession.

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Procession.

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Monumental frontal view.

For a comparation with the primitive sculpture style of Western Nepal see an interesting group of 15 pieces on  http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6054638/7-wester...  other pieces on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6268451/28-santa... .

Another group of sculptures on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6210825/western-... and http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6305346/four-pri... .

 A Western Nepal primitive  reliquary sculpture is edited on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6220844/western-... .

An interesting collection of Santal Parganas scroll paintings is edited by Hervé Pedriolle on http://santalparganas.blogspot.com/ . 

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Detail.

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Raider.

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Santal Hul. "Hul "is a Santali term, it means a movement for liberation and remember the Santal insurrection of the 1855 (read more on  "Santal Hul insurrection of Santal 1855-56: Expoits of Sidhu, Kanhu, Chand and Bhairab" by P. Sinha).

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N2 Santal Hul.

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Santal Hul.

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